General talk about software patterns

["Kencho san" <kenchoweb AT hotmail.com>]

I'm not sure what's your problem, but I'll try to answer.

Almost any non-creational pattern can be aplied without dynamic memory 
allocation, for instance the template method, state pattern, facade, 
adapter... all of them can make use of composition-like relationships rather 
than reference relationships (note that reference doesn't mean dynamic 
memory allocation, but usually involves it)

If your problem is about design patterns helping you avoid dynamic memory 
allocation (you have space for a maximum amount of objects and can't waste 
time or memory to store more...), I would suggest taking a look to the 
Object Pool pattern, which is a very clever way to reuse already existing 
objects instead of creating and destroying them constantly

Hope that helps

> Hello all, looking at archives I'm not sure how
> "alive" this list is, but someone out there might be
> listening.
>
> I'm interested in people's opinions as to whether
> design patterns would be useful if you could not
> dynamically allocate memory.
>
> I am new to patterns and find them quite interesting.
> I am considering putting in some effort to comprehend
> them, but my projects at work include embedded
> safety-critical real-time systems, and one of the
> things that we do not use is dynamic memory
> allocation.
>
> If anyone has an opinion as to whether I should delve
> into patterns for this type of software (i.e. you have
> considered doing them and/or done them in similar
> systems before) I'd be interested to hear it.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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